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    Could Japan have seized/kept Hainan island from 1931-33, without it turning into near-term all-out China War? Or more?

    OTL, Hainan hosted air bases and naval bases from which attacks were launched on Borneo and Brunei in the opening stages of the Pacific War. It also was the origination point of some of the invasion convoys that went there. If the Japanese had been better established on the island from the...
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    Could Japan have seized/kept Hainan island from 1931-33, without it turning into near-term all-out China War? Or more?

    Could Japan have seized/kept Hainan island from 1931-33, without it turning into near-term all-out China War? Or more? Could that island have been an additional territorial morsel, seized for the glory of the Imperial Japanese Navy more than the Army, complementing the the contemporaneous...
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